Jewelry ornament



Marcia 13,, 1941. SCHRAYSSHUEN 2,235,120

JEWELRY ORNAMENT Filed Dec. 23, 1939 INVENTOR 6931/ WWW ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 18, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JEWELRY ORNAMENT Carl Schraysshuen, Providence, R. L, assignor to Carl-Art, Inc., a corporation of Rhode Island Application December 23, 1939, Serial No. 310,767

1 Claim. (01. 63-14) My present invention relates to the jewelry art, lockingly pressing against the rear side of the and has particular reference to a novel article ear to lock the ornament on the edge thereof. of jewelry designed to ornament the ear. The ornamental wall II, which is exposed to It is the principal object of my invention to view, may be of any suitable form and may for provide a jewelry ornament for decorating a porexample have an upstanding ornament portion 5 tion of the ear, and particularly the ear lobe. such as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, wherein the Another object of my invention is to provide ornament Illa. has an ornamental wall Ila and a an ornamentation for the edge of an ear. retainer wall lZa, the ornamental wall having an With the above and other objects and advanupstanding ornamental portion I9 designed to fit l0 tageous features in View, the invention consists against and to cover the lobe of the ear. The 10 of a novel arrangement of parts more fully deupstanding portion l9 may be of any shape, the scribed in the detailed description following, in illustrated embodiment showing a spiral form, conjunction with the accompanying drawing, and and may be ornamented in any manner desired. more specifically defined in the claim appended The illustrated ornament is shaped to fit the thereto. edge of the ear lobe, as shown in Fig. 1, but may 15 In the drawing: -be shaped to fit any edge portion of the ear, to Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic section of an ear, to carry out a desired decorative effect, and although which is attached my novel ornament; primarily designed for an ear ornament, may be Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the ornament; modified to ornament the side of a nostril by suit- Fig. 3 is a bottom view thereof; ably shaping the parts. 20

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a modified construc- Although a specific clamp screw locking artion; and rangement is illustrated, any other suitable form Fig. 5 is a rear elevation thereof. of lock for maintaining the novel ornament in It has been found desirable to provide a jewelry place may be substituted therefor, such as for exornament which decorates the edge of an ear, ample a resilient ear-engaging portion which may 25 and which is particularly suitable for ornamentbe formed by striking up a spring tab from the ing the ear lobe. I have devised a jewelry ornamaterial of the back wall, or by securing a spring ment having a recess for receiving part of the blade thereto in any desired manner. edge of an ear, and having suitable clamp or WhileIhave described a specific constructional other retaining means for locking the ornament embodiment of my invention, it is obvious that 30 to the ear itself. With this construction, an ear changes in the size and shape of the parts, in decoration is obtained which may be suitably the length of the edge extension, in the material ornamented :by using different designs, by utilizand the ornamentation used, and in the type of ing gems and other precious and semi-precious securing arrangement, may be made to suit the stones, by engraving, or by plating in different requirements for different designs, without de- 35 colors. parting from the spirit and the scope of the Referring to the drawing, the novel ear ornainvention as defined in the appended claim.

ment H1 is preferably made in the form of a I claim:

metal stamping or the like having an ornamental An ear ornament, comprising a sheet metal front wall H and a rear retainer wall l2, the body portion of arcuate form shaped to provide 40 ornament being generally U-shaped in cross secan elongated curved bottom wall and two side tion to provide a trough or pocket l3 within walls extending upwardly therefrom in parallel which the edge of the ear may be received. The relation whereby a U-shaped trough having open rear retainer wall is provided with a portion l4, ends is formed to receive an ear lobe, one of said preferably in the form of a tabor the like, which walls being ornamental, and the other wall hav- 45 receives a lock arrangement such as for example ing an integral tab extending upwardly therea clamp screw 15 having a central threaded shaft from, said tab having a threaded opening, and a 16 which is threadedly received in a correspondmanually engageable clamp member having a ingly threaded opening in the tab [4, the clamp threaded stem engaging the threads of said open screw having a finger-engageable enlarged end 11 ing and an enlarged end adapted to engage an 50 and an ear-engageable enlarged end l8, whereby ear lobe positioned in said U-shaped trough.

the arrangement forms an adjustable clamp for CARL SCHRAYSSHUEN. 

